Chantelle Houghton: Alex Reid and I are expecting a baby girl

Chantelle Houghton has excitedly announced the sex of her and fiancé
Alex Reid’s unborn baby, revealing it will be a girl.

Chantelle and Alex have revealed they are expecting a baby girl (Picture: Splash)

Chantelle, 28, announced the news on Twitter, telling her followers: ‘Me and Alex are so happy to reveal we are expecting a baby girl.

‘We can’t wait and couldn’t be happier XXXX.’

The pair first revealed they were expecting a baby last November despite being told by doctors that their chances of conceiving were slim.

Houghton believed her only option was to start IVF treatment but found out she was pregnant shortly after.

‘I’d lost all hope – so my only route was to go through IVF,’ she explained at the time.

‘And we were literally about to start â we had the injections in the fridge – when obviously the time of the month didn’t appear for me and I ended up doing a test and I was pregnant. I could not believe it, I was in absolute shock.’

The couple have enjoyed a whirlwind romance since meeting last year, with cage fighter Alex Reid proposing to the glamour model live on RTE’s Saturday Night Live in October.

The model also had to defend herself against critics who claimed her battle to conceive was an orchestrated publicity stunt.